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Ana S. Barreira

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Education

PhD in Biological Sciences

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

2011 - 2006

  • Thesis title: Evolution of plumage colouration patterns in tanagers (Aves. Thraupidae)
  • Thesis advisor: PhD. Pablo L. Tubaro (CONICET, Argentina)

BS in Biological Sciences

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

2005 - 1998

  • Thesis title: Spectral differences in plumage colouration between seasons and subspecies of male Ultramarine Grosbeaks (Cyanocompsa brissonii)
  • Thesis advisor: PhD. Pablo L. Tubaro (CONICET, Argentina)
  • Thesis co-advisor: PhD Stephen C. Lougheed (Queens University, Canada)

Research Experience

Visiting Researcher

Irwin Lab

Zoology Department, University of British Columbia

2020 - current

  • The purpose of this visit is to improve my knowledge of genomic techniques applied to the study of speciation with gene flow in birds.

Assistant Researcher

CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina)

División Ornitología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”

2014 - current

  • Research Interests: Evolution and diversification of Neotropical birds. Diversity and mechanisms of elaboration of colour in biological tissues.
  • Other interests: Museum collections, taxidermy, and use of museum specimens and data bases for research.

Posdoctoral Fellow

CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina)

División Ornitología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”

2014 - 2011

  • I investigated patterns of genetic diversity in Neotropical birds through DNA Barcodes.

Doctoral Fellow

CONICET (National Research Council of Argentina)

División Ornitología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”

2011 - 2006

  • I investigated evolution of plumage colouration in Tanagers (Aves: Thraupidae).
  • I investigated patterns of genetic diversity in Neotropical birds through DNA Barcodes.
  • I contributed to increasing Argentina’s National Ornithology collection and building the frozen tissue collection.



Teaching Experience

Bioinformatics for DNA Barcoding

Leading Labs trainning workshop: extending and enhancing DNA barcoding research in Argentina and neighbouring countries

CONICET and Biodiversity Institute of Ontario/Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding

2019 - 2013

  • I was Instructor of bioinformatics in the one-week (40 hours) workshop held annually at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. This workshop was attended by researchers, graduate students, and technicians from Argentina and other Latin American countries involved in DNA Barcoding research projects.

Introduction to Ecology

Universidad de San Andres

Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

2012 - 2005

  • TA and lectured
  • The course covered basic concepts of biology in genetics, evolution, and ecology.
  • Undergraduate level class.

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Mechanisms involved in the production of differently colored feathers in the structurally colored Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis, Aves: Thraupidae)

Journal of Experimental Zoology: Part B Molecular and Devolopmental Evolution

N/A

2020 - Under review

Achromatic, but not chromatic, sexual differences in ovenbird plumages (Aves: Furariidae)

Journal of Ornithology

N/A

2020 - Under review

  • Barreira Ana S., Eaton Muir E., Vilacoba Elisabet and Kopuchian Cecilia

Analysis of the optical properties of the silvery spots on the wings of the Gulf Fritillary, Dione vanillae

Scientific Reports

N/A

2020 - Under review

  • Dolinko Andres, Borgmann Luisa, Lutz Christian, Curticean Ernest R., Wacker Irene, Vidal Maria S., Szischik Candela, Inchaussandague Marina, Skigin Diana, Hölscher Hendrik, Tubaro Pablo and Barreira Ana

Evolution between forest macrorefugia is linked to discordance between genetic and morphological variation in Neotropical passerines.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 149 (2020) 106849.

N/A

2020

  • Trujillo-Arias Natalia, Rodríguez-Cajarville María J., Sari Eloisa, Miyaki Cristina Y., Santos Fabricio R., Witt Christopher C., Barreira Ana S., Gómez Isabel, Kazuya Naoki, Tubaro Pablo L. and Cabanne Gustavo S.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106849

Theoretical approaches to study the optical response of the red-legged honycreeper’s plumage (Cyanerpes cyaneus).

Applied Optics 59(13)

N/A

2020

UV sensitive vision in cardinals and tanagers is ubiquitous

EMU in press

N/A

2020

  • Casalia Belen, Vilacoba Elisabet, Lavinia Pablo D., Tubaro Pablo L. and Barreira Ana S.

Contrasting evolutionary histories in Neotropical birds: divergence across and environmental barrier in South America.

Molecular Ecology 28 (7), 1730-1747

N/A

2019

How the observed color of the Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis) changes with viewing geometry

Optik 182, 639-646

N/A

2019

Structural color in the Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis): Using the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method to simulate disorder in natural photonic crystals

Physical Review E 98 (3), 032403

N/A

2018

Structural colour in Tersina viridis

Opt. Pura Apl 50, 279-288

N/A

2017

The multiple applications of DNA barcodes in avian evolutionary studies

Genome 59 (11), 899-911

N/A

2016

Congruence of phenotypic and genetic variation at the subspecific level in a Neotropical passerine.

IBIS 158(4): 844-856

N/A

2016

Viewing geometry affects sexual dichromatism and conspicuousness of the non-iridescent plumage of Swallow Tanagers (Tersina viridis)

The Auk - Ornithological Advances 133(3): 530-543

N/A

2016

Continental-scale analysis reveals deep diversification within the polytypic Red-crowned Ant Tanager (Habia rubica, Cardinalidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 89, 182-193

N/A

2015

  • Lavinia Pablo D., Escalante Patricia, García Natalia C., Barreira Ana S., Trujillo-Arias Natalia, Tubaro Pablo L., Miyaki Cristina C., Santos, Fabricio R. and LIjtmaer Dario A.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.018

Intraspecific and interspecific vocal variation in three Neotropical cardinalids (Passeriformes: Fringillidae) and its relationship with body mass

EMU 114: 129-136

N/A

2014

Fluorescent and ultraviolet sexual dichromatism in the blue-winged parrotlet.

Journal of Zoology 288: 135-142

N/A

2012

Standardized Libraries of DNA Barcodes Provide Insight into Continental Patterns of Avian Diversification

PLoS ONE 6(7): e20744

N/A

2011

DNA barcodes provide new evidence of a recent radiation in the genus Sporophila (Aves: Passeriformes)

Molecular Ecology Resources 10: 449-458

N/A

2010

Probing Evolutionary Patterns in Neotropical Birds Through DNA Barcodes

PLoS ONE 4(2): e4379.

N/A

2009

Blue males and green females: sexual dichromatism in the Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana) and the Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis)

Ornitología Neotropical, 19(3): 441-450

N/A

2008

Subspecific and seasonal variation in the structurally based coloration of the Ultramarine Grosbeak

The Condor 109:187-192

N/A

2007



I have Peer-Reviewed for the following journals:
1) Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology; 2) Animal Behaviour; 3) American Naturalist; 4) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society; 5) Wilson Journal of Ornithology; 6) The Auk - Ornithological Advances;
7) Journal of Natural History; 8) Behavioural Ecology; 9) Brazilian Journal of Ornithology; 10) EMU - Austral Ornithology; 11) Italian Journal of Zoology.

Book Chapters

Visual and acoustic communication in Neotropical birds: Diversity and evolution of signals

Behavioral Ecology of Neotropical Birds, Chapter 8: 155-183. Springer ISBN: 978-3-030-14280-3

N/A

2019

  • Barreira Ana S and Garcia Natalia C.
  • Eds: Juan C. Reboreda, Vanina Fiorini and Diego Tuero.

Mentorship

Belen Casalia - Undergradute student

Undergradute dissertation advisor

N/A

2020 - 2018

  • Thesis title: “Molecular characterization of UV visual sensitivity in Cardinals and Tanagers (Aves: Cardinalidae and Thraupidae)”. Accepted for publication in EMU - Austral Ornithology (see publications list)
  • Defense date: March 13, 2020
  • Calification: 10/10

Andes Breccia - Undergraduate student

Educative Internship supervisor

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires

2017 - 2016

  • Andres internship was in the context of the project “Expansion of the ultra-frozen Tissue Collection for genomic studies”
  • Sistema Nacional de Datos Genomicos, Ministerio Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion.
  • The objective of this internship was to adapt the museum’s DNA Barcode dataset to be compatible with the standards of Argentina’s National Genomic Data Repository.





Theses evaluations: I am a member of the doctoral thesis committee of Lic. Paula Garrido, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. Director: Paulo Llambias. I have also acted as jury of undergrad theses for the Departmento de Ecologia, Genetica y Evolucion, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.


Scientific presentations from the last 2 years

               (Total = 46)  

Searching for the genomic basis of differentiation in plumage patterning within the Rufous-collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis).

VII North American Ornithologial Conference

Virtual

2020

  • Lavinia Pablo D., Campagna Leonardo, Barreira Ana S., Lougheed Stephen C., Tubaro Pablo L. and Lijtmaer Dario A.

Comparison of morphological and reflectance properties of differenty coloured feathers from male Swallow Tanagers (Tersina viridis, Aves: Thraupidae).

Biological and Bio-inspired optics Faraday Discussion - Living Light edition

Virtual

2020

  • Bazzano Tomas, Mendicino Lucas, Inchaussandague Marina, Skigin Diana, Garcia Natalia C., Tubaro Pablo L. and Barreira Ana S.

Analysis of the optical properties of the silvery spots on the wings of the Gulf Fritillary, Dione vanillae.

Biological and Bio-inspired optics Faraday Discussion - Living Light edition

Virtual

2020

  • Borgmann Luisa, Dolinko Andres, Lutz Christian, Curticean Ernest R., Wacker Irene, Vidal Maria S., Szischik Candela, Inchaussandague Marina, Skigin Diana, Hölscher Hendrik, Tubaro Pablo and Barreira Ana S.

Caracterización de la sensibilidad visual UV en cardinalinos (Aves: Cardinalidae) y Tráupidos (Aves: Thraupidae) a partir de la secuenciación del gen de la opsina sensible a longitudes de onda corta (SWS1)

XVIII Reunión Argentina de Ornitología.

Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2019

  • Casalía Belén, Vilacoba Elisabet, Lavinia Pablo D. and Barreira Ana S.

Historias evolutivas contratantes en aves neotropicales: diferenciación a través de una barrera ambiental en Sudamérica

III Reunión Argentina de Biología Evolutiva

CABA, Argentina

2019

  • Lavinia Pablo D., Barreira Ana S., Campagna Leonardo, Tubaro Pablo L. and Lijtmaer, Dario A.

Caracterización de la sensibilidad visual UV en cardinalinos (Aves: Cardinalidae) y Tráupidos (Aves: Thraupidae) a partir de la secuenciación del gen de la opsina sensible a longitudes de onda corta (SWS1)

III Reunión Argentina de Biología Evolutiva

CABA, Argentina

2019

  • Casalía Belén, Vilacoba Elisabet, Lavinia Pablo D. and Barreira Ana S.

Análisis del patrón espacial de manchas plateadas en la mariposa espejitos (Agraulis vanillae) y Moneta (Dione moneta)

III Reunión Argentina de Biología Evolutiva

CABA, Argentina

2019

  • Bianchimano Luciana, Nuñez-Bustos Ezequiel, Tubaro Pablo L. and Barreira Ana S.

Spatial pattern analysis of silvery spots in Agraulis vanillae and Dione spp. butterflies

Bio-inspired optics and photonics – from metamaterials to applications

Dresden, Germany

2019

  • Barreira Ana S., Bianchimano Luciana, Nuñez-Bustos Ezequiel and Tubaro Pablo L.

Proximate and ultimate causes of the variable structural color in the Swallow Tanager (Tersina viridis).

Bio-inspired optics and photonics – from metamaterials to applications

Dresden, Germany

2019

  • Tubaro Pablo L., Barreira Ana S., Skigin Diana, Inchaussandague Marina and D’Ambrosio Christian

Unusual color effect in the plumage of the genera Cyanerpes and Dacnis.

Bio-inspired optics and photonics – from metamaterials to applications

Dresden, Germany

2019

  • Urquia Gonzalo M., Skigin Diana, Inchaussandague Marina, Barreira Ana S. and Tubaro Pablo L.

Other research and field work

Participation in field expeditions

Division Ornitologia

Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales

N/A

  • Nov-Dec 2019: Collection of Zonotrichia capensis samples across a phenotypic gradient in the Argentinean Patagonia.
  • Nov 2017: General collection of bird specimens and blood samples of the endangered Limnoctites rectirostris in Uruguay.
  • 2013-2012-2011-2007-2006: General collection of bird specimens in Misiones province, Argentina. (2-3 three weeks expeditions).
  • 2009/2008: General collection of bird specimens in joint expeditions with the Coleccion Boliviana de Fauna (Isabel Gomez and Dr. Kazuya Naoki) in the North Yungas area of La Paz province (2008) and the Amazonian region at the border between Laz Paz and Beni provinces (2009) of Bolivia (1-month expedition each)
  • Nov-2006: general collection of bird specimens in a joint expedition between MACN and the Kansas University Natural History Museum (Mark Robbins)
  • Oct-Nov 2005: General collection of bird specimens joint between Kansas University Natural History Museum (Mark Robbins) and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Kimberly Bostwick) to Jujuy province, in Argentina.

Research visit

Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding (CCDB)

Guelph University, Ontario, Canada

2007

  • I visited the CCDB to process samples for the project “DNA barcoding of the birds of Argentina” (see Kerr et al. 2009).
  • Host Collaborators: PhD Kevin Kerr and PhD Paul Hebert.

I have acted as a peer reviewer for research grant proposals funded by the Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica of Argentina, both for national and international grant categories.

Agraulis vanillae

Grants & Fellowships

          (Only currently active grants are listed)

Is divergence in simpatry/parapatry possible in birds? A filogenomic and phenotypic study on the rol of natural selection on speciation.

PICT-2018-0268

ANCyPT (Argentinean National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology)

2023 - 2020

  • Amount granted: $1,522,500 (aprox USD 18,000)
  • Grant Category: Research Team
  • Research Team: Sebastian Cabanne (PR), Ana S. Barreira and Valentina Ferreti

Addressing Darwin’s mystery of mysteries: studying the diversification and speciation process in the light of gene flow, selection and mitonuclear coevolution in Neotropical birds.

Richard Lousbery Foundation

N/A

2022 - 2019

  • Amount granted: USD 80,000
  • Research Team: Pablo Tubaro (PR), Sebastian Cabanne, Dario Lijtmaer, Ana S. Barreira, Pablo L. Lavinia

Visual sensitivity and plumage colour evolution in cardinalids (Aves: Cardinalidae).

PICT-2015-3650

ANCyPT (Argentinean National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology)

2020 - 2017

  • Amount granted: $160,338 (aprox. USD 9,400)
  • Grant Category: Young Researcher
  • Principal Researcher

The rol of natural selection on biological diversification: a genomic and phenotypic study of neotropical birds .

PIP 2015-2017

CONICET (Argentinean National Research Council)

2020 - 2016

  • Amount granted: $295,000 /aprox USD 30,000
  • Research Team: Sebastian Cabanne (PR), Ana S. Barreira and Pablo L. Tubaro

Posdoctoral Fellowship

CONICET

N/A

2014 - 2011

Doctoral Fellowship

CONICET

N/A

2011 - 2009

Doctoral Fellowship

CONICET

N/A

2009 - 2006